Saka Light Cavalry

Sunday, 17 January 2016

1,000th Post Must Mean a Giveaway

Way back on 8th September 2011 I started this blog to chart my return to painting after about a twenty year break. I never expected it to reach the point where I could write a post regarding hitting 1000 posts, never mind that I would have done so in such a short period of time.

Looking back I have certainly painted up a fair few figures during the last six years, indeed I have painted more in this period than all the time I was painting the first time around. Learning so many new techniques and being a more mature painter has meant I have made a steady improvement in my skills and style.

A big change has been my flirtation with 6mm in the early 90's becoming my main scale to paint. Not that the other scales miss out but due to Project Waterloo and now the Ancients bug I have been bashing out 6mm like my life depends on it.

I have always thought blogging as more a selfish act that a sharing one. We do it as much for the response from followers as the chance to share our work. I am lucky my wife takes an active interest in what I paint but for the main part one battalion of French line infantry looks more or less the same as the 50+ I have already showed her. So it's to you dear reader that I have to thank for making comments and keeping my ego topped up and desiring more, more I say MORE :-)

So what better way to thank the poor sods who follow this blog than do a giveaway? It's about time as it's been a long time since the last one, now what can we go with?

Two boxes of Tajima1 grass tufts of your choice from the grass tufts range (up to £6 per box)

It might not give Extra Credit, but giving you a shout-out gave me a reason to put the first post of the year up on my blog, thanks for that. http://getitpainted.blogspot.se/2016/01/first-post-of-2016mixed-pics-and-give.html

Cor, just about in time, I guess! Real life can be a damn' nuisance at times - all the time reallt.

Anyway, well done on the post total I'll achieve my 1,000th about the time of my 104th birthday. Give away will probably be a packet of incontenance pads (unused). In the meantime, I'd like to be considered for the tufts please (ignore everyone else!).